Guinn Mountain Hut

Several weekends ago, Pickles, Lily, Mark, and I hiked up to Guinn Mountain Hut near Eldora to check it out as a possible overnight destination.  It was a great hike and a neat little cabin so the next weekend we hiked up with a bunch of friends.  Pickles and Lily had so much fun playing in the snow, chasing sledders down the hill (Pickles barking ferociously), and snuggling up in the cabin.  Unfortunately, after Dec. 1, dogs are no longer allowed due to the need to melt snow for water.

View of the cabin on our scouting trip, you can barely see the loft up above

Pickles sporting his new backpack compliments of Talia.  Thanks!

Everyone getting ready to leave the cabin

There was a strong wind storm over night and lots of huge trees had fallen in the trail

R&R sledding their way down

The top of a tree that blew off in the storm; we took it home with us for a Christmas tree

Mousey

We often have mice getting into our chicken food.  Lily has been quite helpful in catching them for us.  I think she's caught a total of three.  Here's a real little baby one that she caught and we let her and Pickles play with it for a bit.  Pickles was super gentle with it, nudging it with his nose and licking it.  While Lily didn't actually kill it, I'm not sure if rolling on it is considered gentle.

Doggy Day Care

Roscoe and Lily both came over today to play with Pickles.  I think it's a safe bet that they were all very very happy about this situation.  The morning started off with some wrestling in the living room followed by a game of chase in the backyard.  Our backyard is way too small for chase.  They might have all sustained some bruises from running into things.  It's pretty hot outside today too.  After everyone got as much heat as they could stand,  the party moved back inside for another hour of wrestling.  Finally, at 12:30 they all took a brief nap.  After nap time, we had some lunch.  Roscoe ate out of a Frisbee and was surprisingly ravenous, Pickles ate off the floor and Lily ignored them and continued her nap.  After lunch we had some training 101.  We practiced sit, down, shake, come, and stay.  It is really cute to train three dogs at the same time.  They are adorable all lined up in a row sitting or laying down.  Next they had a rousing game of ankle biting.  This is especially fun with three dogs because you are never safe.  Sometimes Lily likes to just supervise.  These are seriously the three cutest dogs ever!  They get along so well.  They slept for another hour and then played the rest of the day.   We'll have to have another play date soon.

Swimming with Lily

Lily is spending the weekend with us.  She and Pickles have become fast friends.  We took them to res to go swimming this morning and Lily loved the water.  Here they are cooling off.